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With lesser amounts of data to protect, companies can better manage the security profile of truly valuable data, and monitor who has accessed it and why, Guest Contributors Brian E. Finch and Brian T. Fox write.

Bruce Schneier, CTO of security software maker Co3 Systems Inc., called out antivirus vendors for not disclosing information about Regin, sophisticated malware that may have links to the U.S. government.

CIO Journal Editor Steven Rosenbush spoke with Google CIO Ben Fried about the link between corporate culture and IT. Edited highlights of that conversation appear in Journal Reports: Leadership . Here are more highlights, in which Mr. Fried shares his thoughts on a range of topics including mobile application development for the enterprise, which he argues is still in the early stages.

The economic benefits of the cloud aren’t in doubt, but economic efficiency isn’t the priority that it once was, especially outside the U.S., where anxiety about cyber security and privacy are particularly acute, says Dr. Rebecca Parsons, chief technology officer of ThoughtWorks.

People appear to be deeply conflicted over privacy, according to a new index developed by EMC. They say it’s a top priority, but generally behave as if it scarcely matters to them. CIOs can’t afford the luxury of such diffidence, though. They must govern IT as if it was the most important thing in the world to people, because once in a while it will be.

Dell is poised to capitalize on the volumes of data generated by wearable devices and other Web-connected machines by selling computer systems that manage and glean insights from that information, says Michael Dell, the company’s founder and CEO.

Single sign-on forces CIOs –not to mention consumers—to strike a balance between convenience on one hand and security and privacy on the other. And in the post Target, post Snowden world, that balance is in flux.

KKR CIO Ed Brandman assessed the vulnerability within most of the private equity giant’s 90 portfolio companies, a diverse group that includes First Data, Go Daddy, Toys ‘R’ Us, China International Capital and SunGard Data Systems. “We weren’t trying to stop anything from happening … We didn’t get into the weeds of what the attacks were or why,” Mr. Brandman told CIO Journal. He left that work to CIOs of the individual companies.

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